My dad had a gas station in Houston when I was just a knee-high ball of curls, and occasionally, when he would come home at the end of the day, he’d tell me about all the cool cars he had seen. Thing is, I didn’t know them then as what cars they actually were; I knew them as what they were on TV, like if he told me Peter Weller was outside, I’d be unfazed, but if he said RoboCop…?

“A guy came by with the General Lee today!” or “A man brought the Ghostbusters car to the station!” would send my child brain into a frenzy imagining the Duke boys jumping through the Challenger’s windows after talking to my dad or a Ghostbuster handing out toys.

20-some-odd years later, me and the car from Gran Turismo/Top Gear/Fast 5 stop at a country gas station for something to drink. Read more

Quick: in five seconds, pick the most iconic Volkswagen model ever. Done? Good. Yes, the correct answer is The Beetle. If you said anything else, you’re either fooling yourself by saying GTI or trying to sound clever by throwing out Veyron. Just get out, seriously. Want my point to be cemented? 60 years ago, they just called this car “Volkswagen.” So when they release a new one, the world pays attention. Read more

Floyd Bennett Field holds credit as New York City’s first municipal airport. Since it’s opening in 1931, many notable figures have begun or ended a journey here to, inadvertently or not, leave their mark in history. Today, among the people fishing and R.C. car racers sending their toys up the runways, old hangars sit unused and abandoned, echoing a time of significant aviation progress. Sadly, it is a very fitting place to talk about the Saab 9-5 Turbo4. Read more

Much like a parent of an honor roll elementary school student, Toyota cannot be more excited about the 2012 Camry. Toyota is very keen on focusing on the success of the Camry as a whole,and It’s hard to blame them. Very few companies can really tout the “Best Selling Car in America” card, and Toyota aims to capitalize and build upon that reputation. Read more

It’s time to talk about choices. Remember in Trainspotting when Ewan Macgregor is going on about choice? Choose this, choose that and the other? While his diatribe bookends the character’s tumultuous heroin decent, what the rest of us who aren’t on smack can take away from this is that a potential and life-changing side effect in engaging in choice is regret. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but there will come a time where at some point, for something big or small, it will be up to you to make a decision. When it comes to cars, it’s a big one, and having spent some time with the Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 R-Spec, I have the feeling there are many new drivers out there who now must be kicking themselves. Read more